Boolean

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Boole +‎ -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbuːl.i.ən/, /buːˈli.ən/

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• (US) enPR: bo͞oʹliən, bo͞oliʹən, IPA^(key): /ˈbuli.ən/

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Boolean (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.
2. (logic, computing) Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.

Boolean (plural Booleans)

1. (logic, computing) A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.

• (Boolean variable): flag, bool